Thomson Industries has created a video that details how its smart linear actuators have benefited Tribine Harvester, LLC, a recent entrant into the grain harvester market.
Robert Garbett, Founder and Chief Executive of, Drone Major Group Ltd, delivered a keynote speech on 23 June at Drone World Congress in Shenzhen, China, one of the world’s leading forums for the drone industry.
Food processing is a sector that demands very high standards of efficiency to meet daily production throughput targets. Any unexpected breakdown of critical components which stops production lines can have a major impact, not just in terms of loss of output, but also unplanned maintenance.
Lean manufacturing and management techniques may well involve capital projects which mount up to a considerable overall cost to an operation. It is important however to bear in mind that very often relatively low cost projects can make improvements to the operation which, for a pretty low capital outlay will deliver a payback over a very short period of time.
All of a sudden the autonomous future is looking a bit more uncertain, which is surprising given what tech and auto boosters have been saying for years – namely, that self-driving cars are “just around the corner.”